What's the difference between moggy and muggy?

Moggy


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Docked 44 points from last season's total Luciano Moggi ex-Juventus general manager banned for five years Andrea Della Valle president of Juventus banned for four years Claudio Lotito Lazio president, banned for three years Adriano Galliani Milan's vice-president, one-year ban Italy's Champions League entrants Internazionale, Roma, Chievo and Palermo Uefa Cup entrants Livorno, Parma and Empoli
  • (2) Luciano Moggi, the Juventus general manager at the centre of the affair, was banned from football for five years and the former president of the Italian federation, Franco Carraro, was excluded for 4½ years for failing to stop this rot at the very heart of the game.
  • (3) Crucially the Highland wildcat is a member of the first of these subspecies while the domestic moggie that sleeps on your sofa and squawks for food in your kitchen is a member of the Middle Eastern subspecies.
  • (4) Moggi and other Juventus executives were accused of arranging for amenable referees and assistants to officiate at games involving the Turin club and at those involving other teams considered allies.
  • (5) The nine-year-old moggy sports the formal black cap worn by all employees of Wakayama Electric Railway and is addressed by her official title of stationmaster.
  • (6) I'm even suspicious of the sleeping moggy in Eisenman's painting.

Muggy


Definition:

  • (superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
  • (superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was a vivid green morning, the air muggy and sad.
  • (2) Willian is believed to have "held talks" with Chelsea, in which pleasantries about the muggy London weather, the comfort of his hotel room and the size of the number that will appear on his weekly pay-cheque were almost certainly discussed.
  • (3) "Bit of an education," she murmurs as they walk into the muggy heat.
  • (4) That Palace should still end up inflicting a second defeat in four matches for the champions thanks to Joel Ward’s winning goal, stabbed in after more good work by Bakary Sako, was both fair reward and a fair reflection of the poverty of Chelsea’s performance at a muggy, uncomfortably close Stamford Bridge.
  • (5) Ghostpoet's music is perfect for that atmosphere of muggy dread.
  • (6) While plying his trade in the cold, blustery conditions of Arbroath's Gayfield Park on Scotland's North Sea coast isn't exactly perfect preparation for the expected 90% humidity of Natal in July, Deuchar has played in similarly muggy climates during his time with Real Salt Lake in the US and was an integral part in helping the fledgling club to their first Major League Soccer play-off appearance in 2008, earning him the nickname Doctor Goals.
  • (7) In these paintings, imitations of cave drawing (without the dexterity of the real thing) mix with muggy abstractions and Jackson Pollock-like paint splashes.
  • (8) Romelu Lukaku continued to wage his personal crusade against West Ham, scoring on his seventh successive appearance against the Hammers on a muggy, wet afternoon at a subdued Upton Park.
  • (9) One can only pity the actors who turned out for filming at London’s St Paul’s Cathedral on Saturday in full Cybermen costume, as temperatures hit a muggy 28C.
  • (10) For an afternoon in the muggy Swiss sun, and for 45 minutes on the pitch, Liverpool turned Basel red.
  • (11) On a muggy, misty December morning it took more like 50 minutes as traffic crawled along the coast road past joggers, cyclists and Cariocas playing football and volleyball on the beach.
  • (12) The pitch-side air was muggy but this did not stop Charlton Athletic’s Johan Gudmundsson enjoying a flying start, rattling Almer’s right-post with a peach of a 25-yarder virtually from kick-off.
  • (13) At Quai des Celestins, near Place de la Bastille, on a Friday morning, the traffic speeding along the riverside highway flanking the muggy grey Seine is relentless.
  • (14) Stepping on to a red carpet at the Royal Malaysian Air Base, Obama was whisked by limousine to Kuala Lumpur's Parliament Square, where a 21-gun salute rang out as Malaysia's king and prime minister greeted Obama under muggy skies and a yellow awning.
  • (15) Inside, the windows were misted up and the air was dank and muggy.
  • (16) It’s Valentine’s Day, a muggy Saturday afternoon, and a group calling itself Resistant Citizen is staging a rare anti-coup protest in the middle of the Siam Square shopping district.